There’s kind of this unofficial debate among readers concerning those who enjoy unlikable characters and those who need protagonists to be tolerable in order to invest in their story. Kathe Koja doesn’t write about Nicholas and Nakota’s experience with the Funhole, she drags the reader into that terrifying space with them. There’s something raw, dangerous and downright uncomfortable about this story. But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole. The Cipher by Kathe Koja Meerkat Press (September 15th, 2020) 236 pages 17.48 paperback 3.99 e-book Reviewed by Sadie Mother Horror Hartmann. See, The Cipher is something completely different from most of the horror novels that I have read in the past few years. Wouldn't it be wild to go down there? says Nakota. When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive. With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm. Burroughs, possesses a writing style unmatched by anyone else in the business. Kathe Koja, an author who Library Journal once described as a collaboration between Clive Barker and William S. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. The very first title released under the Dell/Abyss line happens to be one of the best horror novels I’ve ever read: Kathe Koja’s The Cipher.
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